Iiiick. Honestly that's a voice I wouldn't mind them recasting. I don't know what they were thinking when they cast the cameos in Graces (although poor Veigue got it the worst).

It was just leftover voice actors who only had smaller roles in game voicing the cameos. Now that Hearts is actually being released they'll recast Amber with a more fitting voice. I don't really know who would be a good candidate though, but I am feeling either Lucien Dodge or Erik Kimerer as Shing (my first choice would have been Todd Haberkorn, but he was cast as Rowen).

I hope that's what they do.

Haley Joel Osment (Sora from Kingdom Hearts) or Joshua Seth (Tai from Digimon) would be a good Shing, but Osment is union (although Chronicles proved they can get big-budget talent again) and Seth has retired from voice acting.

Haley Joel Osment (Sora from Kingdom Hearts) or Joshua Seth (Tai from Digimon) would be a good Shing, but Osment is union (although Chronicles proved they can get big-budget talent again) and Seth has retired from voice acting.

Pretty sure Tales might have gone union since a number of Xillia VAs are union.

Iiiick. Honestly that's a voice I wouldn't mind them recasting. I don't know what they were thinking when they cast the cameos in Graces (although poor Veigue got it the worst).

It was just leftover voice actors who only had smaller roles in game voicing the cameos. Now that Hearts is actually being released they'll recast Amber with a more fitting voice. I don't really know who would be a good candidate though, but I am feeling either Lucien Dodge or Erik Kimerer as Shing (my first choice would have been Todd Haberkorn, but he was cast as Rowen).

I hope that's what they do.

Haley Joel Osment (Sora from Kingdom Hearts) or Joshua Seth (Tai from Digimon) would be a good Shing, but Osment is union (although Chronicles proved they can get big-budget talent again) and Seth has retired from voice acting.

Joshua Seth is a hypnotist and has been for a while though, but on that subject Jason Spisak (who sounds kinda similar) would also make a good Shing. For the rest of the cast...I'm thinking Kira Buckland for Kohak/Amber, Kyle Hebert or Sean Chiplock for Hisui/Jadeite, and Grant George or Keith Silverstein for Kunzite. I'm not sure about the others.

It's kind of hard to figure out what pool of voice actors Namco uses, they don't really take newbies but they don't seem to be fully union either.

Yey Hearts in English and i can buy DLC \ o / I'm so happy everyone can experience the story now in more ways!!

I'm hoping they botch the hill scene translation and make it more like the original *shot*

I also need a new memory card now -_- Hopefully they give us that CE I missed out on <3 I'm so super excited my top tales will all be on English now! And it's thankfully well spaced from the X2 release date rumour so nobody has to go completely broke xS

Iiiick. Honestly that's a voice I wouldn't mind them recasting. I don't know what they were thinking when they cast the cameos in Graces (although poor Veigue got it the worst).

It was just leftover voice actors who only had smaller roles in game voicing the cameos. Now that Hearts is actually being released they'll recast Amber with a more fitting voice. I don't really know who would be a good candidate though, but I am feeling either Lucien Dodge or Erik Kimerer as Shing (my first choice would have been Todd Haberkorn, but he was cast as Rowen).

I hope that's what they do.

Haley Joel Osment (Sora from Kingdom Hearts) or Joshua Seth (Tai from Digimon) would be a good Shing, but Osment is union (although Chronicles proved they can get big-budget talent again) and Seth has retired from voice acting.

Joshua Seth is a hypnotist and has been for a while though, but on that subject Jason Spisak (who sounds kinda similar) would also make a good Shing. For the rest of the cast...I'm thinking Kira Buckland for Kohak/Amber, Kyle Hebert or Sean Chiplock for Hisui/Jadeite, and Grant George or Keith Silverstein for Kunzite. I'm not sure about the others.

It's kind of hard to figure out what pool of voice actors Namco uses, they don't really take newbies but they don't seem to be fully union either.

I think Jason Spisak for Shing is good idea.Yes, I want Kira Buckland for Amber. I don't want Amber with 50+ old actress.

That means I'll have to buy all the dlc all over again no troubles with that now I just got to wait for Gamestop to put up TOH R again I didn't order until it was they said it was real yes I know my mistake

The Tales Facebook still has yet to talk about the localization for some reason. The cat's already out of the bag, so why wait?

Easter weekend so the guys who keep up the Facebook page aren't working atm. Plus the fact that the original video was set to private after it was found probably means Bandai Namco didn't mean for it to get out yet. The lower guys in the company who post about this stuff still have to stick to the schedule the higher ups give, even if there's a leak. At least until the higher ups give them the go ahead, but it won't happen over the weekend when everyone's out.In that case, they'll probably bring it up after the weekend's over.

Wendee Lee was Amber Hearts before, why not have her repriese the role for this game?

Because they probably didn't put any effort into her casting and just let Wendee Lee play Amber for the few lines she has in Graces f to save money.

Now that her game is getting localized, they'll probably put more effort into finding a more suitable voice for Amber. Then again, Namco has been oddly consistent with voice actors in the past. The actors who played the Symphonia characters in Radiant Mythology reprised their roles in Dawn of the New World, for instance.